Expertise

Health economics

Health insurance

Health information technology

Medical technology evaluation

STEPHEN T. PARENTE, PhD, MPH, MS is a Professor in the Department of Finance and the Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance in Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. From 2014-2017, he served as Associate Dean of MBA and MS programs. Dr. Parente is the longest serving Director of the Medical Indutsry Leadership Institute (2006-2017). As a Professor in the Finance Department, he specializes in health economics, information technology, and health insurance. Dr. Parente has been the principal investigator on large funded-studies regarding consumer directed health plans, health information technology and health policy micro-simulation. In Washington DC, he served as the Governing Chair of the Health Care Cost Institute from 2013 to 2017. He is the Founding Director of the Medical Valuation Laboratory, a nine college interdisciplinary effort to accelerate medical innovation from scientists, clinicians and entrepreneurs. Dr. Parente was a health policy advisor for the McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign and served as Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D‑WV) in 1992/93. He has a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.

Is Information Technology Related to the Financial Performance of U.S. Hospitals? An Exploratory Analysis, S. T. Parente and J. Dunbar, International Journal of Health Care Technology and Management (2001).

Potential Savings form Using Information Technology Applications in Health Care in the United States, P. Neumann, S. T. Parente, and L. Paramore, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (1996).